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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2019-07-04 15:14:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-07-05 11:12:07 +0900
commitb9705d8778e7adc97de38f405f835a2426e14d84 (patch)
treeb9a6b567e2d55da836ed112f5a7c134f3833d3de /mm
parentc212ddaee2fd21e8d756dbc3c6119e3259b38fd0 (diff)
mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init
Commit 0e56acae4b4d ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections") is causing a regression on some systems when the kernel is booted as Xen dom0. The system will just hang in early boot. Reason is an endless loop in get_page_from_freelist() in case the first zone looked at has no free memory. deferred_grow_zone() is always returning true due to the following code snipplet: /* If the zone is empty somebody else may have cleared out the zone */ if (!deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn, first_deferred_pfn)) { pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX; pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags); return true; } This in turn results in the loop as get_page_from_freelist() is assuming forward progress can be made by doing some more struct page initialization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620160821.4210-1-jgross@suse.com Fixes: 0e56acae4b4d ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d66bc8abe0af..8e3bc949ebcc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1826,7 +1826,8 @@ deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order)
first_deferred_pfn)) {
pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
- return true;
+ /* Retry only once. */
+ return first_deferred_pfn != ULONG_MAX;
}
/*